WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – Russia said its forces took complete control of a city in eastern Ukraine on Saturday.
This comes as Congress is debating whether to send more money to Ukraine.
President Joe Biden is putting pressure on lawmakers to pass a security aid package for Ukraine, as the war intensifies.
“Ukrainian people fought so bravely and heroically, ” Biden said.
On the same day that Russian troops took control of the Ukrainian city of Avdiivka, President Biden told reporters that he remained confident that he could get the money from Congress.
“The idea that now running out of ammunition, to walk away, I find it absurd,” Biden said.
President Biden’s pledge comes as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appealed to world leaders at the Munich Security Conference.
“We are counting on the United States,” Zelensky said.
Vice President Kamala Harris assured the world that America would continue to stand with Ukraine and reiterated that there is clear bipartisan support.
“There is bipartisan support for what America is and what we stand for,” Harris said.
On Capitol Hill, it’s unclear if and when House Speaker Mike Johnson will take up the bipartisan foreign aid package passed last week in the Senate.
